Some of these dead malls are being turned into ecommerce distribution centers.
> Some of these dead malls are being turned into ecommerce distribution centers.
Our local mall was built in 1977 and started going downhill over a decade ago, but it refused to die till roughly 3 years ago. For the last years of it’s run it had the distinction of being home to over 30 store-front churches. It had a couple of holdouts in business right up to the end. I has occasion to visit one of the proprietors on a few occasions. Imagine an entire parking lot devoid of cars and one unmarked rear door that was apparently the only entryway into the ghost-town that looked like everybody had just walked away one day and never came back, which is in-fact exactly what happened.
The final irony in this story is that, in roughly a year’s time the mall was demolished and a giant Amazon distribution center took its place.
About 20 miles south of here one of the largest malls in this part of the country is meeting the same fate.